Advisory Panel Recommends H5N1 Vaccine To FDA For Approval

... An advisory panel to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given its support for approval of the first avian flu vaccine for humans. The expert panel said that while the drug has not been tested on a wide scale, it is safe and sufficiently effective to act as a stop gap until a better one is available. New generations of the vaccine are already at the experimental stage. [click link for full article] ...